lewdly

1. 1.

   in a lewd and obscene manner

   “he had seen how in their dances the white men and women held one another obscenely”

   Synonymsobscenely

Questions about lewdly

What does lewdly mean?

lewdly means "in a lewd and obscene manner".

How many syllables are in lewdly?

lewdly has 2 syllables: lewd-ly. The stress falls on "lewd".

What is another word for lewdly?

Close synonyms include obscenely. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lewdly a common word?

lewdly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.